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Quotes About Speed

Are you calling me out? (Varyk) I'm calling you slow. Not out. (Dev)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I swear, Kat, you drive like you're playing a video game. (Cassandra) Yeah, yeah. Wanna see the ray gun I have under the hood to zap them if they don't get out of my way? (Katra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can't catch up to one running at starclass. But if you know something about turbines, thrusters and engines, quantum or classical physics that I've somehow missed, then please enlighten me. - Caillen Dagan to Desideria Denarii
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
~ Douglas Coupland
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
~ Edward Ruscha
Things don't happen that fast in real life.
~ Mike Colter
Life goes quickly, doesn't it?
~ Mitch Albom
Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.
~ Paulo Coelho
A warrior of light needs both patience and speed. He treats each situation as if it were unique.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
~ Robert Frost
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
~ Seneca the Younger
As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.
~ Steve Rushin
Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
~ Tamara Ecclestone
I spent half my life without the internet, it was pretty much the same thing just a whole lot slower and a whole lot more intense!
~ Visionist
There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.
~ Wallace Stevens
The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.
~ Lance Morrow
I have a dream: that in my job, everything goes a bit faster. Five minutes hair, make-up five minutes, ten minutes and ready for a good picture. That would make life much easier.
~ Lara Stone
Life NEVER slows down.
~ Lauren Holly
Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
~ Laurie Anderson
In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.
~ Mark Alan Stamaty
You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.
~ John Dykstra
He said the beings are in the process of changing themselves physically "so they can breathe here. They don't breathe the same as we do." Scott revealed other problems for both of our species should the aliens' presence be manifest on a large scale too soon. "We're not up to their speed," he said. "They think much faster than we do," and "They're going to make it so they don't hurt us.
~ John E. Mack
Hij had nooit geweten dat Trek zó snel kon lopen.
~ John Flanagan
The speed was incredible. She had never ridden so fast in her life. You didn't expect this, did you? "No, I didn't," she replied, shocked to find that she was talking to her horse—and, even more surprising, her horse had seemed to talk to her.
~ John Flanagan